Freddy, arriving in a new town, proceeds to “rub the Constable’s fur the wrong way.” Together with a drunken man he is arrested. At the town lockup Freddy manages to lock the constable in a cell, and escapes. On the street he sees a young girl in tears. She tells him that her father, a drunkard, had been locked up. Jumping at the conclusion that the man he had left in the cell was her father, Freddy returns and rescues him, too. After much difficulty he gets him to the girl’s house, where he is not recognized. Freddy leaves the stranger and walks down the street. A poster catches his eye, and on reading it he sees that $100 reward is offered for the return of an escaped lunatic. The description tallies with the man Freddy has just left, so he takes the poster and is returning to the house, when the constable, who has now freed himself, grabs him. Freddy pacifies his savage anger with the news of his discovery and they agree to split 50-50. They proceed to the house where the lunatic is captured. Freddy gets the constable to release the girl’s father.